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Fractured year sees assets increase 7.2%
- PI Online
- 01 October 2019
Worldwide farmland under management reversed upward trends in recent years, with assets falling 15.7% to $16.2 billion, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey.
Turkish investors sign $275 million Sierra Leone rice farming deal
- SL Telegraph
- 30 September 2019
The government of Sierra Leone has signed a $275M investment deal with the Turkish SALA Group, for the resumption of large-scale rice farm project, covering 54,000 ha in Torma Bum.
Report of the Technical Committee on the Malen Chiefdom Land Dispute in Pujehun District
- Government of Sierra Leone
- 30 September 2019
The mandate of the committee was to enquire into and come out with recommendations that would resolve the conflict between the landowners, the Chiefdom council and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company in Sierra Leone.
Community in fresh bid to register Yala swamp land
- The Standard
- 29 September 2019
Residents of Yala swamp, in Kenya, have begun the process of registering the land to ward off cartels seeking to benefit from the process after the departure of Dominion Farms
UK development bank launches inquiry after murder of Congolese activist
- Guardian
- 27 September 2019
Independent investigators to explore alleged involvement of security guard for palm oil company supported by CDC
Violent arrests and torture expose the myth of ‘development’
- Greenpeace
- 26 September 2019
Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.
UK government body accepts OECD complaint against sugar “sustainability” body
- IDI
- 25 September 2019
The complaint was filed in March on behalf of more than 700 displaced Cambodian families by the U.S. organization IDI and the Cambodian organizations Equitable Cambodia and LICADHO
Intimidation and attacks against land rights defenders in Tshopo and Equateur provinces
- Front Line Defenders
- 25 September 2019
Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.
Croatia to extend moratorium on sale of farm land to foreigners
- Euractiv
- 25 September 2019
Croatia will soon submit a request to the European Commission to extend a seven-year moratorium on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.
Palm oil, pineapples threaten Southeast Asia's indigenous lands
- Reuters
- 24 September 2019
Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.
Harvard was ‘freaking out’: How a $270 million Brazil bet tanked
- Bloomberg
- 24 September 2019
Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.
Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction
- Global Witness
- 23 September 2019
New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn.